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Title: Half of All Americans OK With Torture
Source:
NewsMax
URL Source: http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/11/19/111548.shtml
Published: Nov 19, 2005
Author: NewsMax Staff
Post Date: 2005-11-20 11:41:14 by Red Jones
Keywords: Americans, Torture, Half
Views: 40
Comments: 4
Saturday, Nov. 19, 2005 11:11 a.m. EST Half of All Americans OK With Torture Nearly half of all Americans think torturing terror suspects to gain information can be justified, according to a new survey, reports the Washington Times. The survey, by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press by, of 2,006 persons found that 46 percent thought torturing terrorists to gain important information was sometimes (31 percent) or often (15 percent) justified; 17 percent thought it was rarely justified; and 32 percent were opposed. By contrast, the study found that of 520 opinion leaders questioned on the issue, no more than one in four thinks that torture of terrorist suspects can be sometimes or often justified, Agence France-Presse reports. The survey also found that opinion leaders differ on who should be held responsible for prisoner abuse in Iraq and at the detention center at U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The survey noted that more than 50 percent of academics, journalists, foreign affairs analysts and scientists think such abuses are the result of official policy, against 60 percent of military and religious leaders who see it as mostly misconduct by soldiers and contractors.
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#1. To: All (#0)
the title reports it as though the Americans approve of present policy. But when you look at the details of the poll it is evident that the title could've been written differently showing that a majority of our people oppose the systematic torture of people who are merely suspects. If the americans understood that these 'suspects' are picked up on very flimsy evidence (or non- evidence), then they would overwhelmingly oppose the torture.
It isn't difficult to understand how and why the German people not only went along with the atrocities of the Nazi regime, but supported them wholeheartedly, as it is happening here today.
"Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death." - Adolf Hitler
I wonder if they'll still support torture when it's THEIR nuts being shocked with a Taser, or their child being "waterboarded", or their pet being sodomized before their eyes...
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